Drapery hook



L. M. HOBSON DRAPERY HOOK Dec. 24, 1940.

Filed Dec. 3, 1938 R m N N w M L ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 24, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DRAPERY HOOK Application December 3, 1938, Serial No. 243,722

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a new and useful wire hook for draperies or curtains.

My object is to provide a simple means to facilitate securing a hook to the curtain so that the shank will be securely held against the surface of the curtain by loops of thread, whereby the hook bill will be caused to stand out and away from the curtain at all times to facilitate the easy connection of the same with the eye of a supporting ring or slide.

A further object is to provide means to protect from injury loops of thread extending around the hook shank to hold it in place and to prevent such thread loops from sliding down the shank and becoming bunched near the eye of the hook, the eifect of which would be to release the shank to such an extent as to permit the hook bill to swing out of position and make awkward or difficult the connecting or disconnecting of the same to the overhead supporting eye.

In the accompanying drawing- Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing one of my improved hooks in place as in use;

Fig. 2 is a relatively enlarged view of a portion of the hook shank.

l represents the conventional track or rod designed to span the space to be draped. From this track a series of eyes are customarily suspended on slides (not shown) to which the drapery may be connected by means of hooks. 2 represents one of such overhead supporting eyes. 3 represents the portion of a back of a curtain near the top. My hook is preferably made from wire having an eye 4 at the rear end of the shank 5. The other end of the shank is bent to form the usual hook bill 6. It is desirable that this hook should be secured to the rear surface of a curtain in such a manner as to cause the bill 6 to stand out and away from the curtain at all times to permit it to be easily threaded through the supporting eye 2. 8 represents a thread by which the hook is secured to the curtain. This thread loops around the eye 4 and around and around the shank 5. 7-1 represent a plurality of diagonally arranged transverse thread seats or grooves in that surface of the shank away from the curtain and facing the bill 6 (see Fig. 2). The thread loops become seated in these sunken grooves so that when strain is applied these loops will not slide on the shank and become bunched close to the eye 2, which would tend to permit the hook shank to fall away from the curtain and correspondingly allow the bill of the hook to approach the curtain so as to make it more difiicult to thread it into the supporting eye 2. A simple method for providing the sunken thread seats consists in forming a spiral groove extending around the wire from which the hook is formed. The surface of the shank between said seats may also be knurled, if desired. These sunken seats when deep enough not only prevent the thread loop from sliding on the shank but tend to prevent injury or wear on the thread in the act of attaching or detaching the drapery to an overhead support and also when the curtain is pulled to and fro.

It will be understood that I have shown and described my invention in its preferred form and that certain modifications may be made without departing from the spirit thereof.

What I claim is:

A wire drapery hook comprising a shank bent at one end to form an eye and bent at the other end to form a hook bill, and a spiral groove extending around the shank forming a succession of transverse sunken thread seats extending diagonally across the outer surface of the shank.

LEATA M. HOBSON. 

